200 Main Street
[an inventory of time and place]

19. Fourth of July Chili Cook Off. [Photograph] Los Altos History Museum, Los Altos, CA. The Drever Chili team sings a morale song before the competition in 1986.

20. Red Garter Revue [Photograph] Los Altos History Museum, Los Altos CA.

21. Calligraphy Books [Books] Steve Jobs’s interest in Calligraphy is the root of all our choices for typography with desktop publishing.

22. Various children’s books to reflect the stories that stand the test of time within our community. Bookcase is from the J. Gilbert Smith House in Los Altos, CA.

23. Miss Lamb’s Fifth Grade. Hillview Elementary School [Photograph] Los Altos History Museum, Los Altos, CA.

24. Boys Little League in Summer. [Photograph] Los Altos History Museum, Los Altos, CA. 

25. Los Altos High School Girls Soccer Team Members [Photograph] Courtesy of Laura Roberts

26. Horse Ribbon and two photos. Private Collection. Items were contributed by the same resident. The photos depict mother and daughter at years 1961 and 1987. "I believe the photo of me standing with my pony is around 1961. We boarded our pony at a little ranch on Springer Road where a Seventh Day Adventist Church now stands. The photo of my daughter riding the pony is about 1987 (ironically she is the same age in that photo as me in the photo with my pony!)”. HiddenVilla.org

27. Logo of Furuichi Family’s Los Altos Nursery. [Garden Apron]  Private Collection, Los Altos, CA. The Furuichi family established the nursery in 1947. The Furuichi family had owned the property on Hawthorne Avenue for more than 100 years, established the nursery in 1942, operated the nursery for 72 years, closed in September 2019.

28. Horseback riding paraphernalia (Chaps, boots, helmet) are a nod to the Rancheros who followed the Ohlones on the land, as well as to the local riding community of Los Altos Hills

29. Doorway [Photograph] The doorframe was photographed at the J. Gilbert Smith House, Courtesy of Martha Sakellariou. The view inside the door frame is the Juana Briones House in early spring 1903. Photograph provided by the Palo Alto Historical Assn., Courtesy of M. Nott Ginsberg. Valley pioneer Juana Briones and the mystery of a photograph: Santa Clara Valley Lives

30. A Collection of items and books includes:

The clock was photographed inside the water tower structure that is near the Los Altos History Museum and J. Gilbert Smith house. The clock shows how these spaces were furnished at the time.

23 & Me personal genome test kit, was named “Invention of the Year” by Time magazine in 2008. Anne Wojcicki, a Los Altos Hills resident, co-founded and serves as CEO of the personal genomics company 23andMe. The company is named for the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a normal human cell. She is also Principal and Founder of Los Altos Community Investments.

Crazy Rich Asians, movie in DVD format was directed and produced by former Los Altos resident, Jon M Chu. The Chu family has operated the Los Altos restaurant “Chef Chu’s” for over 50 years. Jon M. Chu is also an alumni of Pinewood School in Los Altos.

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional and Adobe Photoshop User Manual are nods to co-founders of Adobe Inc., John Warnock and Charles Geshke -- both long-time residents of Los Altos.

The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company, by David Packard who co-founded Hewlett Packard corporation in 1939. David Packard was a Los Altos Hills resident until his death in 1996. His family foundation continues to operate in Los Altos. Courtesy of Teri Eyre.

Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner, a celebrated writer who won a Pulitzer Prize and founded the creative writing program at Stanford, where he taught from 1946 to 1971. During his years living in Los Altos Hills, Stegner published eight novels, fourteen books of nonfiction, and six collections of articles and stories. Courtesy of Bonnie Proctor Stevens.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962), by Ken Kesey, a major countercultural figure and former student of Wallace Stegner’s in the creative writing program at Stanford where he worked on the manuscript for this book in 1959. Courtesy of Katie Povejsil.

Steve Jobs, a biography by Walter Isaacson and published in 2011. Steve Jobs, the heart and soul of Apple, grew up in Los Altos. His garage at 2066 Crist Drive was a hang out for the original Apple founders where they pioneered the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and founded Apple computers in 1976. Courtesy of Laura Roberts.

Paint the Town: Los Altos & Los Altos Hills -- The Last Year of the 20th Century. Images in Art compiled by Paul & Liz Nyberg, published January 1, 2000. Courtesy of Teri and Joe Eyre.

Los Altos: Portrait Of A Community, A Century Of Photos, published December 1, 1992 on the 40th anniversary of the incorporation of Los Altos as a California city. It was sponsored by Los Altos Tomorrow, now known as Los Altos Community Foundation. Revised Edition 2000 edited by Paul D. Nyberg. Courtesy of Teri and Joe Eyre.

The Ohlone Way by Malcolm Margolin. A tribute to Ohlone culture taught at local schools and a must read regarding Progressiveness, community, and appreciation. Part of a group of Native Americans who once inhabited small villages throughout the Santa Clara Valley, Ohlone Indians were the first known residents of what later became Los Altos and Los Altos Hills. 

The Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein, is a forgotten history of how federal, state, and local policy explicitly segregated metropolitan areas nationwide, creating racially homogenous neighborhoods in patterns that violate the Constitution and require remediation. But it is also about home and residential practices. In 2020, it was among the most frequently checked out titles at the Los Altos Library.

In Search of Excellence, by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, explores the art and science of management. The authors found eight common themes which they argued were responsible for the success (“excellence”) of companies. HP and Intel in Silicon Valley were featured as key examples of new and excellent management models. Courtesy of Katie Povejsil.

All the Little Live Things, by Wallace Stegner, was published in 1967 and set in Los Altos Hills. Stegner was an environmentalist at heart, and a keen observer of the constant struggle in the West between development of the land and conservation, the core subject at the core of this novel. Courtesy of Laura Roberts.

Only the Paranoid Survive, by Andrew Grove, founder and former CEO of Intel, and a long-time resident of Los Altos Hills. In 1997, he was chosen by Time magazine as “Man of the Year,” for being “the person most responsible for the amazing growth in the power and innovative potential of microchips.” Courtesy of Laura Roberts.

The Gene, by Siddhartha Mukherjee, is a nod to the importance of biotech and genetics research at Bay Area universities that have spawned fast-growing industries in which many Los Altans are employed. Courtesy of Laura Roberts.

California Apricots: The Lost Orchards of Silicon Valley by Robin Chapman, a writer and former television journalist and news anchor. She is the author of four books on regional history To learn more, visit www.historypress.net. Courtesy of Teri and Joe Eyre.

Juana Briones of 19th Century California. One of the few women of her time to own and operate a cattle ranch and farm (Rancho la Purisima Concepcion) in the mid 1800s. The town of Los Altos Hills was incorporated in the 1950s on Briones ranch land. Courtesy of Los Altos Library.

31. The quote by William Wordsworth, “A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone”, appeared on the original Apple logo from 1976.

32. A calendar with local events from the year 2005. Published by the Los Altos Cultural Association, it includes the artworks of the 2004 "Paint the Town Lifestyle” challenge that resulted in 40 artworks, 12 of these selected for this calendar. Courtesy of a Los Altos resident.